On Monday morning, March 19, the U.S. Supreme Court issued orders in many non-election cases, but issued nothing about the pending Pennsylvania case on U.S. House districts.
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This wikipedia page about the Russian presidential election of 2018 has preliminary election returns, at the very end.
In 2018, as in 2016, the Independent Party of Oregon, which has its own primary, is letting independent voters choose an Independent Party primary ballot. See this story.
The Democratic and Republican Parties of Oregon do not let independent voters vote in their primaries. The other ballot-qualified parties in Oregon nominate by convention.
This article in the New Mexico Political Journal gives the history behind New Mexico’s law regarding straight-ticket devices on general election ballots. The legislature in 2001 repealed the authorization for a straight-ticket device. But, even afterwards, New Mexico’s former Secretary of State kept the device. Finally, in 2011, a new Secretary of State said she would not keep it, unless the legislature reauthorized it. As the article explains, there were then many attempts by legislators to restore authorization for the device, but they never passed.
The Secretary of State elected in 2014 is now threatening to again restore the device, despite the lack of any authorization in the law. Thanks to Rick Lass for the link.
On March 17, some of the candidates for Governor of New York debated each other. One of them, former Erie County Executive Joel Giambra, said during the debate that he is changing his registration from Republican to Reform. Although it is common for New York’s “fusion parties” to nominate high-profile candidates once in a while, typically those candidates remain registered in one of the major parties. For instance, James Buckley, elected to the U.S. Senate on the Conservative line in 1970, nevertheless kept his registration in the Republican Party. Thanks to Frank Morano for this news.
Erie County contains Buffalo. The Reform Party expects to nominate Giambra for Governor at its September 2018 primary.